Posted on 09/13/2010 5:06:45 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
Amtrak officials pushed the agency's longtime inspector general to resign — without telling Congress — after the watchdog official exposed wrongdoing, mismanagement and criminal activity inside the taxpayer-funded rail service, a congressional probe has found.
The finding is among the key disclosures in a joint staff report by ranking Republicans of the Senate Finance and House Oversight and Government Reform committees into the sudden departure last year of Amtrak Inspector General Fred Weiderhold.
"Because of his expertise, the [Amtrak] Board viewed Weiderhold as a threat," concluded a draft copy of the report, which was reviewed by The Washington Times.
The probe also found
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Can’t have someone around who’ll stop them from robbing we taxpayers blind - he’s gotta go.
Ping.
Apparently this guy was figuring out why the return on our “investment” was so splendid.
Out he goes.
It’s the Obama way
Doesn’t Biden have one of his kids installed at Amtrak? Seems he used to get real sweetheart transit deals because of that connection.
“Because of his expertise, the [Amtrak] Board viewed Weiderhold as a threat,”
And here is the key. Any form of competence is seen as a threat to the Regime.
Hard to find a starting point for cleaning house. Cockroaches everywhere. Probably local elections are a good place to begin but with unions firmly entrenched in basic service such as trash and municipalities’ employees it is as if there is no hope of changing the status quo. What union is going to vote to cut their own throat.
Then there is the guy in Georgia facing fines for growing food. The whole property tax thing everywhere is fundamentally wrong to begin with. Depressing in more than one way.
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